Here is a breakdown of our amazing STEM week experiences
Monday
Kicking off our STEM week we were visited by the charity SmartSTEMS . We heard a presentation and took part in a Q and A session with James McCullagh, who works for the company Seric. After this we participated in a fantastic engineering challenge across the whole of the P7 stage.
This afternoon we were fortunate to welcome teachers from Eastwood High who talked to us about engineering and gave us instructions on how to create our very own Seismometers. This gave us an opportunity to work in teams and to practise some technology skills.
Tuesday
Today we spent much of the day working on our shelter designs. We are looking at the whole design process and beginning to understand how it work in real life. Basically every design challenge involves creating something for someone for some purpose.
Wednesday
FemEng members and biomendical engineering university students Hannah and Olivia visited and treated us to an incredibly interesting presentation. They then showed us how to make a simple bionic hand using every day craft materials. They gave us instructions and we worked in pairs to create our own bionic hand.
STEM leaders from Mearns Castle visited us and gave us a design challenge to create a basket to safely store an egg to travel down a zip slide. There was a great buzz in our classrooms as we worked in groups to design and create the fastest device to match the challenge.
Continuing with the engineering theme we spent some time this afternoon designing and creating in response to given challenges using Kapla block. What a versatile and dynamic resource!
Thursday
Today we learned about microorganisms and how they have both negative and beneficial effects on our bodies. We created a poster to show the benefits like creating tasty food and drink and to aid the digestive system.
Friday
Today we were fortunate to have Sarah Jardine, CEO of epipole , visit and present to us. She was inspiring and engaging and we all learned a lot listening to her. She set us a challenge to work in teams to design a solution to a problem we were passionate about solving. We worked together with 7.26 and some of us presented our plans – Sarah was really impressed with our inventive solutions and abilities as well as our work ethic, manners and enthusiasm!
